Viktor Frankl citáty 32 citátů o účelu, odolnosti a hledání smyslu života

„I z kamení, které ti někdo nahrnul do cesty, můžeš postavit katedrálu.“

„Snad ještě žádná generace nepoznala člověka tak, jak ho poznala generace naše. Co tedy je člověk? Je to bytost, která vynalezla spalovací pece. Je však současně i bytostí, která šla do plynových komor vzpřímeně a s modlitbou na rtech.“

Zdroj: [Kosová, Martina, Logoterapie, Grada, Praha, 2014, 978-80-247-4346-2, 93]

Viktor Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Zdroj: FRANKL, Viktor E., A přesto říci životu ano, Karmelitánské nakladatelství Kostelní Vydří, 1996, ISBN 80-7192-095-9

„Člověk je připraven a ochoten přijmout jakékoliv utrpení, jakmile a dokud je schopen v něm vidět nějaký smysl.“

„Vidím v tom skutečnou výzvu připojit se k této menšině (slušných lidí a světců). Neboť svět je ve špatném stavu, ale všechno bude ještě horší, pokud každý z nás neudělá to nejlepší. A tak tedy buďme bdělí - bdělí ve dvojím smyslu: Od Osvětimi víme, čeho je člověk schopen. A od Hirošimy víme, co vše je v sázce.“

„Na zemi existují dvě lidské rasy, ale jen tyto dvě: rasa lidí řádných a rasa lidí neřádných.“

Zdroj: [Kosová, Martina, Logoterapie, Grada, Praha, 2014, 978-80-247-4346-2]

Viktor Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Man's Search for Meaning

„Úloha každého člověka je stejně jedinečná, jako je jedinečná jeho příležitost ji splnit.“

„Štěstí vznikne jako vedlejší produkt, pokud zvolíte správnou cestu.“

„Abnormální reakcí na abnormální situaci je normální chování.“

Zdroj: https://youtu.be/6vk6wsLAYKU?t=2017

„Podstata lidské existence spočívá v její sebetranscendenci. Být člověkem znamená vždy už být zaměřen a nastaven na něco nebo někoho, být oddán nějakému dílu.“

„V některých ohledech utrpení přestává být utrpením v okamžiku, kdy najde smysl, například smysl oběti.“

„Zakouším pravdu, že láska je nějak poslední a nejvyšší, k čemu se člověk může vzepnout… Chápu, že člověk, i když mu už na tomto světě nezbývá vůbec nic, může být blažený (byť i jen na okamžik), je-li ve svém nejhlubším nitru oddán obrazu milovaného člověka.“

„Když člověk nemůže najít hluboký smysl, rozptýlí se potěšením.“

„O štěstí se nedá usilovat, musí přijít samo.“

„To, co mě nezabije, mě posiluje.“

“What is to give light must endure burning.”

Viktor Frankl: Citáty anglicky

“Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.”

Citát je autorovi chybně přisuzován

“I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplemented by a Statue of Responsiblity on the West Coast.”

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Zdroj: Quoted in Man's Search for Meaning and attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche.

“Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.”

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning

“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.”

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Man's Search for Meaning
Varianta: But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

“When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.”

Zdroj: book Man's Search For Meaning

“Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.”

“We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents… Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies.”

“Human potential at its best is to transform a tragedy into a personal triumph, to turn one's predicament into a human achievement.”

Viktor E. Frankl kniha The Doctor and the Soul

Zdroj: The Doctor and the Soul

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning

“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.”

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning

“The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstance.”

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning (1946; 1959; 1984), p. 32 in the 1992 edition, ISBN 0807014265, Beacon Press

“The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity — even under the most difficult circumstances — to add a deeper meaning to his life.”

“A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth — that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.”

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Man's Search for Meaning (1946; 1959; 1984)
Kontext: The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity — even under the most difficult circumstances — to add a deeper meaning to his life. It may remain brave, dignified and unselfish. Or in the bitter fight for self-preservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more than an animal. Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.

“Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.”

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Man's Search for Meaning (1946; 1959; 1984)
Kontext: A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth — that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love. … For the first time in my life I was able to understand the meaning of the words, "The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory."

“The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.”

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning

“What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.”

“Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality”

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Man's Search for Meaning (1946; 1959; 1984)

“But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.”

“No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.”

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning

“For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.”

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning

“The point is not what we expect from life, but rather what life expects from us.”

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning

“The salvation of man is through love and in love.”

“It is true, Logotherapy, deals with the Logos; it deals with Meaning.”

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning (1946; 1959; 1984)
Kontext: A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth — that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love. … For the first time in my life I was able to understand the meaning of the words, "The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory."

“I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.”

Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning (1997)
Kontext: It is true, Logotherapy, deals with the Logos; it deals with Meaning. Specifically I see Logotherapy in helping others to see meaning in life. But we cannot “give” meaning to the life of others. And if this is true of meaning per se, how much does it hold for Ultimate Meaning?

“Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.”

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning

“It is not freedom from conditions, but it is freedom to take a stand toward the conditions.”

Viktor E. Frankl kniha A přesto říci životu ano

Zdroj: Man's Search for Meaning